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Q: $*-$ isomorphism between two compact spaces $K(H)$ and $K(H')$ The following is a theorem of Murphy's C*-algebras and operator theory:

I think we can write the proof more easily than Murphy's. After show that $E'$ is an orthonormal basis for $H'$, define unitary linear map $u:H\to H'$ such that $u(e)= \bar e$. then for $e\in E$$$Adu(p_e) = up_eu^*=q_e=\phi(p_e)$$
From it $Adu$ and $\phi$ are equal at rank one projection $\xi\otimes \xi $, for all $\xi \in(H)_{\|.\|=1}$. Also we know that $F(H)$(the space of finite rank operators ) is generated by the rank one projections, so $\phi$ and $Adu$ are equal on $K(H)$.
Is my claim correct? Thanks.

A: We know that $Adu(x\otimes x)=\phi(x\otimes x)$ for $x\in E$, but we do not know that for $x$ being from the linear span of $E$, since $\{y\otimes y, y\in span(E)\}\not\subset \overline{span}(x\otimes x, x\in E)$. For instance, we do not know that for $x=e_1+e_2$, so we cannot get all rank one projections at this point.


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// This file is part of Eigen, a lightweight C++ template library
// for linear algebra.
//
// Copyright (C) 2008-2014 Gael Guennebaud <gael.guennebaud@inria.fr>
//
// This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla
// Public License v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed
// with this file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.

#ifndef EIGEN_COMPRESSED_STORAGE_H
#define EIGEN_COMPRESSED_STORAGE_H

namespace Eigen {

namespace internal {

/** \internal
  * Stores a sparse set of values as a list of values and a list of indices.
  *
  */
template<typename _Scalar,typename _StorageIndex>
class CompressedStorage
{
  public:

    typedef _Scalar Scalar;
    typedef _StorageIndex StorageIndex;

  protected:

    typedef typename NumTraits<Scalar>::Real RealScalar;

  public:

    CompressedStorage()
      : m_values(0), m_indices(0), m_size(0), m_allocatedSize(0)
    {}

    explicit CompressedStorage(Index size)
      : m_values(0), m_indices(0), m_size(0), m_allocatedSize(0)
    {
      resize(size);
    }

    CompressedStorage(const CompressedStorage& other)
      : m_values(0), m_indices(0), m_size(0), m_allocatedSize(0)
    {
      *this = other;
    }

    CompressedStorage& operator=(const CompressedStorage& other)
    {
      resize(other.size());
      internal::smart_copy(other.m_values,  other.m_values  + m_size, m_values);
      internal::smart_copy(other.m_indices, other.m_indices + m_size, m_indices);
      return *this;
    }

    void swap(CompressedStorage& other)
    {
      std::swap(m_values, other.m_values);
      std::swap(m_indices, other.m_indices);
      std::swap(m_size, other.m_size);
      std::swap(m_allocatedSize, other.m_allocatedSize);
    }

    ~CompressedStorage()
    {
      delete[] m_values;
      delete[] m_indices;
    }

    void reserve(Index size)
    {
      Index newAllocatedSize = m_size + size;
      if (newAllocatedSize > m_allocatedSize)
        reallocate(newAllocatedSize);
    }

    void squeeze()
    {
      if (m_allocatedSize>m_size)
        reallocate(m_size);
    }

    void resize(Index size, double reserveSizeFactor = 0)
    {
      if (m_allocatedSize<size)
        reallocate(size + Index(reserveSizeFactor*double(size)));
      m_size = size;
    }

    void append(const Scalar& v, Index i)
    {
      Index id = m_size;
      resize(m_size+1, 1);
      m_values[id] = v;
      m_indices[id] = internal::convert_index<StorageIndex>(i);
    }

    inline Index size() const { return m_size; }
    inline Index allocatedSize() const { return m_allocatedSize; }
    inline void clear() { m_size = 0; }

    inline Scalar& value(Index i) { return m_values[i]; }
    inline const Scalar& value(Index i) const { return m_values[i]; }

    inline StorageIndex& index(Index i) { return m_indices[i]; }
    inline const StorageIndex& index(Index i) const { return m_indices[i]; }

    /** \returns the largest \c k such that for all \c j in [0,k) index[\c j]\<\a key */
    inline Index searchLowerIndex(Index key) const
    {
      return searchLowerIndex(0, m_size, key);
    }

    /** \returns the largest \c k in [start,end) such that for all \c j in [start,k) index[\c j]\<\a key */
    inline Index searchLowerIndex(Index start, Index end, Index key) const
    {
      while(end>start)
      {
        Index mid = (end+start)>>1;
        if (m_indices[mid]<key)
          start = mid+1;
        else
          end = mid;
      }
      return start;
    }

    /** \returns the stored value at index \a key
      * If the value does not exist, then the value \a defaultValue is returned without any insertion. */
    inline Scalar at(Index key, const Scalar& defaultValue = Scalar(0)) const
    {
      if (m_size==0)
        return defaultValue;
      else if (key==m_indices[m_size-1])
        return m_values[m_size-1];
      // ^^  optimization: let's first check if it is the last coefficient
      // (very common in high level algorithms)
      const Index id = searchLowerIndex(0,m_size-1,key);
      return ((id<m_size) && (m_indices[id]==key)) ? m_values[id] : defaultValue;
    }

    /** Like at(), but the search is performed in the range [start,end) */
    inline Scalar atInRange(Index start, Index end, Index key, const Scalar &defaultValue = Scalar(0)) const
    {
      if (start>=end)
        return defaultValue;
      else if (end>start && key==m_indices[end-1])
        return m_values[end-1];
      // ^^  optimization: let's first check if it is the last coefficient
      // (very common in high level algorithms)
      const Index id = searchLowerIndex(start,end-1,key);
      return ((id<end) && (m_indices[id]==key)) ? m_values[id] : defaultValue;
    }

    /** \returns a reference to the value at index \a key
      * If the value does not exist, then the value \a defaultValue is inserted
      * such that the keys are sorted. */
    inline Scalar& atWithInsertion(Index key, const Scalar& defaultValue = Scalar(0))
    {
      Index id = searchLowerIndex(0,m_size,key);
      if (id>=m_size || m_indices[id]!=key)
      {
        if (m_allocatedSize<m_size+1)
        {
          m_allocatedSize = 2*(m_size+1);
          internal::scoped_array<Scalar> newValues(m_allocatedSize);
          internal::scoped_array<StorageIndex> newIndices(m_allocatedSize);

          // copy first chunk
          internal::smart_copy(m_values,  m_values +id, newValues.ptr());
          internal::smart_copy(m_indices, m_indices+id, newIndices.ptr());

          // copy the rest
          if(m_size>id)
          {
            internal::smart_copy(m_values +id,  m_values +m_size, newValues.ptr() +id+1);
            internal::smart_copy(m_indices+id,  m_indices+m_size, newIndices.ptr()+id+1);
          }
          std::swap(m_values,newValues.ptr());
          std::swap(m_indices,newIndices.ptr());
        }
        else if(m_size>id)
        {
          internal::smart_memmove(m_values +id, m_values +m_size, m_values +id+1);
          internal::smart_memmove(m_indices+id, m_indices+m_size, m_indices+id+1);
        }
        m_size++;
        m_indices[id] = internal::convert_index<StorageIndex>(key);
        m_values[id] = defaultValue;
      }
      return m_values[id];
    }

    void prune(const Scalar& reference, const RealScalar& epsilon = NumTraits<RealScalar>::dummy_precision())
    {
      Index k = 0;
      Index n = size();
      for (Index i=0; i<n; ++i)
      {
        if (!internal::isMuchSmallerThan(value(i), reference, epsilon))
        {
          value(k) = value(i);
          index(k) = index(i);
          ++k;
        }
      }
      resize(k,0);
    }

  protected:

    inline void reallocate(Index size)
    {
      eigen_internal_assert(size!=m_allocatedSize);
      internal::scoped_array<Scalar> newValues(size);
      internal::scoped_array<StorageIndex> newIndices(size);
      Index copySize = (std::min)(size, m_size);
      internal::smart_copy(m_values, m_values+copySize, newValues.ptr());
      internal::smart_copy(m_indices, m_indices+copySize, newIndices.ptr());
      std::swap(m_values,newValues.ptr());
      std::swap(m_indices,newIndices.ptr());
      m_allocatedSize = size;
    }

  protected:
    Scalar* m_values;
    StorageIndex* m_indices;
    Index m_size;
    Index m_allocatedSize;

};

} // end namespace internal

} // end namespace Eigen

#endif // EIGEN_COMPRESSED_STORAGE_H

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Athlete's accomplishments: In our sectional win over Rising Sun, Annabelle led us in scoring with 13 points and making both of her 3-point attempts and all 3 free throws. She also rounded out her performance with 4 assists and 3 steals.
Athlete's accomplishments: In our two sectional wins last week, Paige delivered and 8 point, 8 rebound performance in reduced action against Rising Sun. Against Southwestern Shelby, Paige recorded a double double with a team-high 23 points and 12 rebounds.
Athlete's accomplishments: Mitch played great defense and made his one shot of the game count. Trailing by 2 with 1.5 seconds to go, Mitch got the inbound pass and hit a game winning three pointer from half court to secure a 44-43 win over North Decatur.
Athlete's accomplishments: Gavin was instrumental in securing a one-point victory over North Decatur which also snapped a seven game losing streak. He scored 20 points and grabbed six caroms.
Athlete's accomplishments: Andrew is a conference champion and runner up sectional champ.
Submitter's personal comments: Andrew is a leader in the practice room and is a captain. He suffered a broken nose at the beginning of the season and has wrestled through it. Andrew is a great determined young man.
Athlete's accomplishments: Lauren was named to the All-Sectional Team, scoring 20 points and securing 11 rebounds in a semifinal loss to Switzerland County.
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Other information: She had her 15 birthday on this sectional night and 14 points. Happy Birthday KJ!
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From the November 2012 Issue
Reprint: R1211H
Though the term "family business" may call to mind visions of local mom-and-pop firms, family-controlled companies play a huge role on the global stage. Not only do they include sprawling corporations like Walmart and Tata Group, but they account for more than 30% of all companies with sales in excess of $1 billion. And over the long term, their financial performance exceeds that of traditional public companies, according to a new study by BCG and École Polytechnique.
Family-controlled companies surpass their peers because they focus on resilience, not short-term results. During economic booms, this approach leads them to forgo some opportunities (and hence do slightly worse than their counterparts), but it puts them in a position of strength during downturns, when they shine. The researchers identified seven specific ways in which family-run businesses build their resilience:
1. They're frugal in good times and bad.
2. They set a high bar for capital expenditures.
3. They carry little debt.
4. They acquire fewer (and smaller) companies.
5. They're more diversified.
6. They're more international.
7. They retain talent better than their competitors do.
Though these practices come more naturally to executives who feel an obligation to be stewards for the next generation, executives at any corporation can adopt them. Indeed, the researchers uncovered a number of nonfamily-controlled companies that mimicked the behaviors of family firms and saw very similar patterns of performance.
To many, the phrase "family business" connotes a small or midsized company with a local focus and a familiar set of problems, such as squabbles over succession. While plenty of mom-and-pop firms certainly fit that description, it doesn't reflect the powerful role that family-controlled enterprises play in the world economy. Not only do they include sprawling corporations such as Walmart, Samsung, Tata Group, and Porsche, but they account for more than 30% of all companies with sales in excess of $1 billion, according to the Boston Consulting Group's analysis.
Conventional wisdom holds that the unique ownership structure of family businesses gives them a long-term orientation that traditional public firms often lack. But beyond that, little is known about exactly what makes family businesses different. Some studies suggest that, on average, they outperform other businesses over the long term—but other studies prove the opposite.
To settle that question, we and Sophie Mignon, an associate researcher at the Center for Management and Economic Research at École Polytechnique, compiled a list of 149 publicly traded, family-controlled businesses with revenues of more than $1 billion. They were based in the United States, Canada, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Mexico. In each business a family owned a significant percentage, though not necessarily a majority, of the stock, and family members were actively involved both on the board and in management. We then created a comparison group of companies from the same countries and sectors, which were similar in size but not family controlled. (We didn't look at Asian companies because so many of them are family controlled that it's difficult to find a suitable comparison group.) Then we did a rigorous analysis of the ways in which those two sets of companies were managed differently and how that affected performance.
Our results show that during good economic times, family-run companies don't earn as much money as companies with a more dispersed ownership structure. But when the economy slumps, family firms far outshine their peers. And when we looked across business cycles from 1997 to 2009, we found that the average long-term financial performance was higher for family businesses than for nonfamily businesses in every country we examined.
The Long-Term View of Family-Business Performance
Though family-run companies slightly lag their peer group when the economy booms, they weather recessions far better.
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The simple conclusion we reached is that family businesses focus on resilience more than performance. They forgo the excess returns available during good times in order to increase their odds of survival during bad times. A CEO of a family-controlled firm may have financial incentives similar to those of chief executives of nonfamily firms, but the familial obligation he or she feels will lead to very different strategic choices. Executives of family businesses often invest with a 10- or 20-year horizon, concentrating on what they can do now to benefit the next generation. They also tend to manage their downside more than their upside, in contrast with most CEOs, who try to make their mark through outperformance.
At a time when executives of every company are encouraged to manage for the long term, we believe that well-run family businesses can serve as role models. In fact, in our research we were able to identify several companies with dispersed ownership whose strategies mimicked those of family firms. Those companies also exhibited a similar performance pattern: below their peers during upturns but leading the pack in times of crisis. (See the sidebar "It Operates Like a Family Business—but It's Not.")
It Operates Like a Family Business—but It's Not
It makes sense that family-controlled companies would focus on resilience instead of performance, but why can't other companies mimic that strategy?
In fact, some do. Consider Nestlé. It follows most of the golden rules of family firms. It slightly underperformed its three major competitors during the economic expansions of 1997–1999 and 2003–2007—but consistently outperformed them in periods of financial stress and crisis. Its leverage is lower: Debt accounts for 35% of its capitalization, versus an average of 47% among its competitors. Nestlé relies less on acquisitions: Annually, newly acquired businesses account for an average of 3.9% of its revenues, versus an average of 7.8% for its competitors. Nestlé is also the most diversified of the world's four food giants, in terms of both geography (67% of its sales come from outside its home region, compared with 56% for its competitors) and product lines (which range from pet food to beverages, and from confectionary to pharmaceuticals).
Nestlé is not a unique example. Essilor, the world leader in optical lenses, is another nonfamily firm that mimics these behaviors. It has a culture of cost consciousness, maintains a very low level of debt, and has little staff turnover. Essilor is highly international—and has made many small acquisitions close to the core rather than pursuing big deals. Like Nestlé, it has weathered the recent downturn exceptionally well. In the United States, Johnson & Johnson isn't a family-owned business, but it acts like one, with a low debt-to-equity ratio, a product line that allows its PR people to tout it as "the most diversified global health care company," and a skepticism toward the large transformational mergers that other pharma players routinely attempt.
For years managers have been advised to "think like an owner." The rules of family business show how to translate that thinking into actual strategies. What Nestlé and other nonfamily companies prove is that it's possible to benefit from these rules regardless of ownership structure.
So how do family-run firms manage for resiliency? We've identified seven differences in their approach:
1: They're frugal in good times and bad.
After years of studying family businesses, we believe it's possible to identify one just by walking into the lobby of its headquarters. Unlike many multinationals, most of these firms don't have luxurious offices. As the CEO at one global family-controlled commodity group told us, "The easiest money to earn is the money we haven't spent." While countless corporations use stock grants and options to turn managers into shareholders and minimize the classic principal-agent conflict, family firms seem imbued with the sense that the company's money is the family's money, and as a result they simply do a better job of keeping their expenses under control. If you examine company finances over the last economic cycle, you'll see that family-run enterprises entered the recession with leaner cost structures, and consequently they were less likely to have to do major layoffs.
2: They keep the bar high for capital expenditures.
Family-controlled firms are especially judicious when it comes to capex. "We have a simple rule," one owner-CEO at a family firm told us. "We do not spend more than we earn." This sounds like simple good sense, but the reality is, you never hear those words uttered by corporate executives who are not owners. The owner-CEO added: "We make roughly €450 million of free cash flow every year, so we try to spend no more than €400 million per year, and we keep the balance for rainy days."
At most family firms, capex investments have a double hurdle to clear: First a project must provide a good return on its own merits; then it's judged against other potential projects, to keep spending under the company's self-imposed limit. Because they're more stringent, family businesses tend to invest only in very strong projects. So they miss some opportunities (hence their underperformance) during periods of expansion, but in times of crisis their exposure will be limited because they've avoided borderline projects that may turn into cash black holes.
3: They carry little debt.
In modern corporate finance a judicious amount of debt is considered a good thing because financial leverage maximizes value creation. Family-controlled firms, however, associate debt with fragility and risk. Debt means having less room to maneuver if a setback occurs—and it means being beholden to a nonfamily investor. The firms we studied were much less leveraged than the comparison group; from 2001 to 2009, debt accounted for 37% of their capital, on average, but for 47% of the nonfamily firms' capital. As a result, the family-run companies didn't need to make big sacrifices to meet financing demands during the recession. "People think we are rich and courageous," one executive from a family firm told us, "but in fact we are cowardly—we leave most of the cash in the company to avoid giving away too much power to our banks."
4: They acquire fewer (and smaller) companies.
Of all the plays a manager can make, a sparkly transformational acquisition may be the hardest to resist. It carries high risks but can pay large rewards. Many family businesses we studied eschewed these deals. They favored smaller acquisitions close to the core of their existing business or deals that involved simple geographic expansion. There were significant exceptions to this rule—when the family was convinced that its traditional sector faced structural change or disruption or when managers felt that not participating in industry consolidation might endanger the firm's long-term survival. But generally, family companies aren't energetic deal makers. On average, we found, they made acquisitions worth just 2% of revenues each year, while nonfamily businesses made acquisitions worth 3.7%—nearly twice as much. Family businesses prefer organic growth and will often pursue partnerships or joint ventures instead of acquisitions. As the HR director of a leading family-owned luxury goods company described it: "We don't like big acquisitions—they represent too much integration risk, you may get the timing wrong and invest just before a downturn, and more importantly, you may alter the culture and fabric of the corporation."
5: Many show a surprising level of diversification.
Plenty of family-controlled companies—such as Michelin and Walmart—remain focused on a core business. But despite a generation's worth of financial wisdom that diversification is better done by individual investors than at a corporate level, we found a large number of family businesses—such as Cargill, Koch Industries, Tata, and LG—that were far more diversified than the average corporation. In our study 46% of family businesses were highly diversified, but only 20% of the comparison group were. Some family firms had expanded into new lines of business organically; others had acquired small entities in new fields and built on them. The CEOs we spoke with say that as recessions have become deeper and more frequent, diversification has become a key way to protect the family wealth. If one sector suffers a downturn, businesses in other sectors can generate funds that allow a company to invest for the future while its competitors are pulling back.
6: They are more international.
Family-controlled companies have been ambitious about their overseas expansion. They generate more sales abroad than other businesses do; on average 49% of their revenues come from outside their home region, versus 45% of revenues at nonfamily businesses. But family businesses usually achieve foreign growth organically or through small local acquisitions—without big cash outlays. And they are very patient once they enter a new market. "We accepted that we'd lose money in the U.S. for 20 years, but without this persistence we would not be the global leader today," says one executive from a family-run global consumer products company.
7: They retain talent better than their competitors do.
Retention at the family-run businesses we studied was better, on average, than at the comparison companies; only 9% of the workforce (versus 11% at nonfamily firms) turned over annually.
The leaders of family companies extol the benefits of longer employee tenures: higher trust, familiarity with coworkers' behaviors and decision making, a stronger culture. These businesses have a lot in common with what the academics Karlene Roberts and Karl Weick call "high-reliability organizations," in which long-serving teams of specialists develop efficient team dynamics and a collective mind-set that helps them achieve goals. Says the CEO of one $10 billion diversified group: "We don't have the smartest guys out there, but they know their job like nobody else, and when a problem hits they can act immediately as a team—one that has been there before."
Interestingly, family businesses generally don't rely on financial incentives to increase retention. Instead, they focus on creating a culture of commitment and purpose, avoiding layoffs during downturns, promoting from within, and investing in people. In our study we found that they spent far more on training: €885 a year per employee on average, versus an average of €336 at nonfamily firms.Examine these seven principles, and it becomes clear how coherent and synergistic they are: Adhering to one of them often makes it easier to follow the next. Frugality and low debt help reduce the need for layoffs, thus improving retention. International expansion provides a natural diversification of risks. Fewer acquisitions mean less debt. Money saved through frugality is invested wisely if the company keeps a high bar on capital expenditures. Instead of working in isolation, these principles reinforce one another nicely.
When we talk with executives at family-controlled firms, they speak derisively about competitors who "bet the farm" or "swing for the fences." They talk about what keeps them up at night. Though they realize they are missing opportunities by being overly prudent, they hope to generate superior returns over time as business cycles turn from good to bad.
It's evident that those cycles are speeding up. If that trend continues, the resilience-focused strategy of family-owned companies may become more attractive to all companies. In a global economy that seems to shift from crisis to crisis with alarming frequency, accepting a lower return in good times to ensure survival in bad times may be a trade-off that managers are thrilled to make.
A version of this article appeared in the November 2012 issue of Harvard Business Review.
Nicolas Kachaner is a senior partner and managing director in the Paris office of the Boston Consulting Group.
George Stalk, Jr., is senior adviser and fellow at Boston Consulting Group and a senior partner at BanyanGlobal Family Business Advisors. Mr. Stalk has made several contributions to HBR, including his first article, "Time—The Next Source of Competitive Advantage" (July–August 1988).
Alain Bloch is a professor at CNAM and HEC Paris, the academic director of HEC Entrepreneurs, and a cofounder of HEC Paris Family Business.
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Homer Goes to College, titulado Homer asiste a la universidad en España y Homero va a la Universidad en Latinoamérica, es el tercer episodio de la quinta temporada de la serie animada Los Simpson, emitido originalmente el 14 de octubre de 1993. El episodio fue escrito por Conan O'Brien y dirigido por Jim Reardon.

Sinopsis
Todo comienza una tarde, cuando todos en la planta nuclear se encuentran durmiendo la siesta. De repente, un equipo de inspección nuclear efectúa una revisión sorpresa en la planta. Mientras Burns los demora en la entrada, Smithers esconde a Homer y a otros dos trabajadores poco calificados en el sótano para que no arruinen la revisión, con la excusa de cuidar una abeja depositada dentro de un frasco. Homer rompe el frasco por accidente y es picado en el trasero por la abeja, por lo que es descubierto por los técnicos en la superficie y obligado a superar una prueba, la cual demostraría si era competente.

Dentro del simulador de su consola de seguridad, Homer presiona botones al azar para poder salvarse de la inspección; pero de alguna forma acaba produciendo una fusión, lo cual parecía imposible, ya que no había material nuclear en el simulador. Por este accidente se descubre que Homer requiere preparación universitaria en Física Nuclear para desempeñarse en su puesto, cosa que no tiene. Para evitar una multa, Burns intima amablemente a Homer para que asista a la universidad. Luego de que Homer es rechazado en todas a las que había pedido ingresar, el anciano lo ayuda a entrar a la Universidad de Springfield, ya que es miembro del paquete accionario de la casa de estudios.

Homer toma su nueva vida como una diversión en lugar de dedicarse a estudiar, ya que al considerarse a sí mismo como un "vival", se dedica a bromear en clase y burlarse de los "matados" -tras ver series y películas estereotipadas de la vida universitaria-. Luego de causar una fusión accidental al intentar demostrar el funcionamiento de un acelerador de protones, el rector de la universidad lo envía a prepararse con asesorías externas con tres nerds: Doug, Gary y Benjamin (el rector es muy buena persona y comprensivo, todo lo contrario de lo que pensaba Homer de él).

Homer, en vez de estudiar, piensa en divertirse y hacer bromas. Para esto, Bart colabora, y juntos planean secuestrar al cerdo insignia del Colegio Superior de Springfield, la casa de estudios rival de la Universidad. Una noche, Homer, Bart y los "cerebritos" secuestran al cerdo, llamado Sir Oinksalot (Porquiño en Hispanoamérica). Homer le da cervezas, lo que causa que el cerdo se embriague y caiga pesadamente al piso, llamando la atención del rector. Por el desgraciado hecho (ya que el cerdo tenía "amigos poderosos") el rector no tiene más alternativa de expulsar a los tres nerds.

Homer, el culpable de su expulsión, los lleva a vivir a su casa. Pasa poco tiempo para que la familia Simpson se quiera deshacer de ellos, por lo que Homer trama un plan para que le salven la vida al rector. Este consistía en intentar atropellarlo con su auto, y que los "matados" lo empujen, salvándolo. Sin embargo, Homer se equivoca en la sincronización y choca al rector, rompiéndole la cadera.

En el hospital, Homer cuenta la verdad, y el rector, conmovido por su honestidad y demostrando que es una persona bondadosa, olvida lo pasado y readmite a Benjamin, Doug y Gary en la universidad.

El problema siguiente, entonces, radicaba en que quedaba solo un día para el examen final de Física Nuclear I, y Homer no había estudiado nada en todo el tiempo. Para ayudarlo, sus compañeros lo hacen estudiar; pero no fue suficiente, pues Homer reprueba. Temiendo perder su empleo, los "cerebritos" lo ayudan a aprobar cambiando su nota con la computadora.

Gracias a la poca brillantez de Homer, su familia descubre que había hecho trampa y lo obliga a cursar la materia otra vez. En los créditos finales se ven más correrías de Homer en su segunda etapa de estudios, y finalmente logra aprobar, manteniendo su empleo.

Referencias culturales
 El episodio hace varias referencias a la película Animal House, incluyendo la canción "Louie Louie" de The Kingsmen.
 El pie que aparece en el gag del sofá es el del logotipo de la serie de televisión Monty Python's Flying Circus.
 Cuando Bart y Lisa ven el episodio de Tomy y Daly, la forma de la barba que Tomy le hace a Daly con explosivo plástico rosa es una referencia a la barba de Abraham Lincoln.
 También se hace referencia a la película Monty Python and the Holy Grail cuando Benjamin, Doug y Gary imitan a los "Caballeros que dicen Ni".
 La escena en que el Sr. Burns realiza una comida y mientras habla de trabajo en equipo toma un bate de béisbol e intenta golpear a uno de los presentes es una referencia a Los intocables.
 Bart llama la atención de los nerds y de Homer arañando una pizarra, de la misma manera que Quint en la película Tiburón.
 La escena en la que Burns trata de sobornar a los inspectores del gobierno con una lavadora o el contenido en una caja misteriosa se basa en uno de los gags del programa humorista Let's Make a Deal.
 El señor Burns abandona su oficina en una cápsula de salvamento similar a la que usan C3PO y R2D2 al principio de Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope.

Referencias

Enlaces externos

 Homer Goes to College en TheSimpsons.com. (en inglés)
 Homer Goes to College en TV.com. (en inglés)
 Homer Goes to College en The Simpsons Archive. (en inglés)

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Reflecting on the now, Melissa Laing
Towards a History of the Contemporary: Gordon H Brown Lecture 16
Christina Barton
Art History, School of Art History, Classics and Religious Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, $15.00,
For the last 16 years, the art history department of Victoria University of Wellington has presented the annual Gordon H Brown Lecture. In the tradition of the discipline, the many eminent scholars of New Zealand art history have looked backwards at what artists have created and why this is historically significant. In some cases, this historicising has been used to reflect on the now – both art as it is practised at this moment, and society as we are shaped by it in the present. Christina Barton's lecture "Towards a History of the Contemporary" reaches towards this end – an understanding of the contemporary as a cultural state with a specific historical context and trajectory.
In the time-span of a lecture, captured in this slim and beautifully designed volume, Barton draws a path through a period of New Zealand art history that can be defined as the contemporary. One end is anchored by the appearance of the television in domestic living-rooms, and the other by Facebook live-streaming in our pockets. She tells us of an art history shaped by the evolution of broadcast media and the changes that have accompanied it: a history of the critical and adaptive responses to this media that, as Barton describes, brought the outside world into New Zealand homes as a culturally colonising force, and enabled a counter movement towards a social identity informed by tangata whenua and minority experiences and voices.
To survey this path, Barton ranges widely, from the later work of modernist painter Rita Angus and early made-for-television documentaries on political activism, to this year's Turner Prize finalist, Luke Willis Thompson. In doing so, she posits two readings of New Zealand art in relationship to the contemporary. The first examines artists as the documentarians of the contemporary, reflecting the social, cultural and economic state of the world as it is in that moment through the technologies they record and use. The second positions artists as the creators of a contemporary consciousness, one where performative video practices are understood as an ethical endeavour to construct the self and, from this, critique the self's relationship with society.
In pursuing these readings, Barton draws together the beginnings of a history of New Zealand art that is not constrained by what she calls the "shibboleths of the art history we have inherited". This is a pointed reference to the dominance of the painterly narrative of New Zealand art history elucidated so comprehensively by Francis Pound, as well as its counterpart, the object-based conceptualism theorised by Wystan Curnow. In making this reference, she brings into the open the awareness that no major scholarly work has been written on the role of television and its partner domestic technologies, the video camera and later mobile phone, as signifiers and as sites of experimentation in New Zealand art since 1970. Indeed, it demonstrates that such a history is urgently needed.
There are few academics so well positioned to discuss the contemporary in art through the tools and methodologies of art history as Barton. She is a researcher, lecturer and curator of post-1970s art, as well as director of the Adam Art Gallery, New Zealand's leading university gallery exhibiting contemporary art. Her influence on our understanding of post-object art and conceptual practices since the 1970s is substantial, and her gallery plays a significant role in defining and furthering contemporary art practices in New Zealand. Sadly, Barton verges on apologetic as she advances and evidences her hypothesis throughout the lecture. Her concluding call at the end of the talk, that we trust "that artists can intuit and render palpable the conditions within which they find themselves", is undercut by her inability to trust her own readings in the preceding pages. The text is peppered with disclaimers that art history is not science, and her assertions softened by qualifiers that turn her interpretations into doubtful suggestions, devaluing the results of her close reading, observation and expert analysis. It seems to me that, in 2018, as we watch the humanities being decimated in our universities, we should resist apologetically undercutting the observational and theoretical tools of the humanities by placing them both below and in opposition to the methodologies of "scientific" knowledge.
There is a rich vein of possibility running under the history Barton advances in her lecture: one that draws contemporary art practices into a close relationship with film and television through the same period and addresses the role of art in negotiating the changing conditions of time of the contemporary. This would be a history that eschews discussing video art in isolation from the broader discipline of contemporary practice, instead weaving it into a fuller medium-agnostic history. Seeing the possibilities, I can only read Towards a History of the Contemporary as a precursor essay to what I hope will be a book more confidently grounded in its material and methodology. A book that takes these as-yet still-in-development ideas and develops them into a cogent and coherent analysis of the contemporary as both a state of society and of New Zealand art.
Melissa Laing is an Auckland-based artist, writer and curator.
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module Render.Orders where

import Application
import Control.Monad.Trans
import FormUtil
import Heist
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19th-Century Artists Predict the Year 2000 in Postcard Series
Jason Jose October 21, 2015
Whimsical illustrations by French artist Jean-Marc Côté and his colleagues that attempted to predict what the world would look like in the year 2000. The series of futuristic pictures were issued in France in 1899, 1900, 1901 and 1910, originally in the form of cigarette/cigar box inserts and, later, as postcards. As is so often the case, their forecasts didn't pan out. We don't have firemen putting out fires in winged suits or people riding in whale buses. Some illustrations came close such as the electric floor scrubber and the sentinel in a helicopter but despite these fantastical drawings, the artists seem to have missed space travel.
There are at least 87 known cards that were authored by various French artists, with the first series produced for the 1900 World Exhibition in Paris, but Jean-Marc Côté never distributed them due to financial difficulties. The cards only came to light after the science-fiction author Isaac Asimov came across them, miraculously preserved, in 1985 and published a book entitled Futuredays: A Nineteenth Century Vision of the Year 2000.
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A Very Busy Farmer
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The Rural Postman
A Model Kitchen
Madame at Her Toilette
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A House Rolling Through the Countryside
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Labor activists are blasting new plan to clean up the air at the Ports of LA and Long Beach that they argue will come at the expense of truck drivers.
Released yesterday, the Clean Air Action Plan is a $14 billion road map of how to cut greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution at the ports, the largest polluters in the region, and gradually shift away from internal combustion engines entirely.
To do so, the ports intend to eventually replace the 16,800 container-hauling trucks that service the ports, 96 percent of which are powered by diesel, with zero-emission technology.
"It's going to be extremely expensive, and the technology is not there," Gene Seroka, the executive director of the Port of Los Angeles, told the Board of Harbor Commissioners on Thursday as he explained how the ports would incentivize manufacturers to build equipment they do not currently make.
The huge price tag worries labor unions like the Teamsters, who say much of the nearly $2 billion spent on the first Clean Air Action Plan, passed in 2006, was borne by truck drivers. That plan resulted in the turn over of the entire fleet of port trucks, replacing old, dirty clunkers with cleaner, but far more expensive, versions. Many drivers could not afford to buy new trucks, which cost upwards of $100,000.
The ports anticipated this, and so inserted a provision in the plan that would require companies to convert drivers, many of whom were independent owner-operators, into employees, and buy their equipment for them. But the American Trucking Association sued the Port of Los Angeles, and in 2011 the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the trucking industry. The Clean Air Action Plan was allowed to proceed, but without the employee mandate.
So instead of employing their drivers, many trucking companies continued to treat them as independent contractors. They purchased trucks on their behalf and then leased them back to the drivers, deducting lease payments from their paychecks. Many drivers have gone on strike, or sued, claiming the arrangements violate labor laws and that they are misclassified as contractors when they should be employees.
Fred Potter, Director of the Teamsters Port Division, called the new Clean Air Action Plan "a disaster for drivers," because it did not spell out who would shoulder the costs of upgrading from diesel to low or zero emission trucks, which are more than three times as expensive.
"So, we see a program that where we the cost is going to put on the very people that can't afford it," he told KPCC's AirTalk.
The ports say shifting to zero emission technology will require significant state, regional and federal government funding to help build out electrical infrastructure, do demonstration projects of early stage technology, and incentivize the early adoption of clean vehicles.
They also say the 2011 court ruling ties their hands when it comes to getting involved in disputes between drivers and trucking companies.
"We tried to address the issues that Mr. Potter has outlined and the courts rejected our efforts," Phillip Sanfield, spokesman for the Port of Los Angeles, wrote in an email. "So it's clear that the ports have limits in what we can regulate."
Sanfield said the new air plan will make life easier for truckers by streamlining the movement of cargo around the ports, reducing the amount of time drivers spend picking up containers.
But Jessica Durrum, the director of the Clean and Safe Ports Program for the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE), said the latest Clean Air Action Plan could have done more to fix labor problems. She would like to see the ports ban trucking companies that are not in compliance with state or federal labor laws – something she says the ports have thus far been reluctant to do.
The Port of LA's Sanfield declined to comment, writing, "this is a complex legal issue involving local, state and federal laws."
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The Rinse Cycle at the Charing Cross Theatre
February 25, 2016 by Alex Wood
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Not for the Wagner Purists, but Rinse Cycle emerged as a fantastically heartwarming and endearing show.
Wagner's original Ring Cycle, which forms the content for the majority of the Unexpected Opera Company's latest show at the Charing Cross Theatre (here the Rinse Cycle (gettit?), was originally a series of four epic music dramas – each meant to be performed over consecutive nights to give the performers (and the audience) something more than an intense 16 hour musical experience. Here, typical for the launderette setting, these four operas have been stuffed into a two hour time slot, scented with a sweet charm, and left to spin in a merry and hectic stage experience.
The five performers, each operatically trained and incredibly talented, all acquitted themselves marvellously. Alongside the performance of Wagner's score came a metatheatrical series of romantic capers between the characters themselves. It certainly took a while to adjust to this structure and form, but it worked a treat. Though clearly their acting took second billing to their singing, the five created a wonderful and hilarious experience for the audience. It'd be unjust to single any of them out.
This was not a show for Wagner purists, as the characters frequently had to provide quick exposition and witty barbs to make sure that the whole plot was dealt with quickly and effectively. Overall the tone of the show seemed to pitch itself somewhere between Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (with actors often breaking off to explain leitmotifs or comment on how similar the narrative is to that of Tolkien), Michael Frayn's Noises Off (with its equally ludicrous backstage farce), and the recent production of Jurassic Park at the Edinburgh Fringe. There were enough sex gags to shake a conductor's baton at.
True, some of the jokes were cringe-worthily borderline racist and a couple of the characters seemed entirely two-dimensional, but what was most important was that this mattered so little – Unexpected Opera have created a merry night of exceptionally talented performers having a chance to take their material and do something different with it. The low-budget dragon or plastic helmets could be forgiven in an instant. After a near-incomprehensible ending to the meta-narrative and a good old sing-a-long, the audience (and this reviewer included) mostly left the audience beaming.
Credit must also go to the pianist, who tackled Wagner's score with panache and delicacy – the music was stripped down to its most necessary motifs and functions, whilst leaving opportunity for some wonderful harmonies and moments to really show the composer's finesse. Wagner really likes to get the most out of his orchestra during his operas, and showing that range of tone and timbre on a single piano was done perfectly.
It took a while to warm to the Rinse Cycle, but what emerged was a fantastically heartwarming and endearing show. Don't miss it whilst it's on at the Charing Cross Theatre!
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Author: Alex WoodAlex is the former reviews editor at Theatre Bubble, but since changing position now contributes occasionally. He has been writing reviews for a number of years, as well as seeing his own shows performed. He has produced and marketed a number of performances at venues in London, Oxford, Edinburgh, including the world premiere of Philip Pullman's The Ruby in the Smoke.
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In(3D)ustry From Needs to Solutions és el primer espectacle de fabricació portat a terme a Barcelona, una iniciativa que es basa en l'acceleració de la transformació industrial i els usos reals de la manufacturació avançada a partir de la impressió 3D. L'event forma part de la Barcelona Industry Week, que inclou també a IoT Solutions World Congress.

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Healthcare és un dels mercats de desenvolupamnet més gran i important per a les peces creades a partir de la tecnologia additiva, pel qual és molt important l'elecció dels materials i la personalització de diferents geometries. Proporciona una gran varietat de productes, des d'aplicacions dentals fins a pròtesis o models quirúrgics preoperatoris.

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 Usuaris industrials: companyies que troben a l'espai In(3D)ustry Arena noves oportunitats i tecnologies amb la manufacturació avançada. Aquestes companyies es basen en l'automoció, l'aeronàutica, els béns del consum, la sanitat, i la indústria de la manufacturació avançada.
 Venedors: tots aquells que presenten solucions als usuaris industrials, mostrant la seva experiència en el sector i demostrant tot allò que es pot arribar a trobar si es potencia l'adopció de la manufacturació avançada en la producció dels productes.

 Companyies industrials: cerquen solucions als seus problemes i noves tecnologies de fabricació avançada i additiva.

Per què Barcelona

Capital de la innovació
Barcelona és considerada la capital europea de la innovació per la seva cultura única. També és la quarta ciutat intel·ligent a Europa i la desena al món.

Centre de negocis
És la ciutat més important a nivell mundial en relació al nombre de delegats de congrés que rep anualment, a més de ser un dels millors centres de negocis per la localització tan estratègica de la qual disposa.

Cosmopolita
Coneguda per arreu del món, la ciutat és ideal per desenvolupar qualsevol tipus de projecte, ja que Barcelona destaca en l'àmbit econòmic, social i cultural. El seu ambient cosmopolita potencia el fet de tenir uns objectius clars i directes.

Creativitat
Barcelona és considerada la quarta ciutat més creativa del món. A nivell d'esport, gastronomia, arquitectura i disseny en general té un gran potencial.

In(3D)ustry 2018
La tercera edició d' In(3D)ustry From Needs to Solutions es va celebrar del 16 al 18 d'octubre de 2018 a la Fira de Barcelona. L'event va tenir més de 5400 visitants i més de 240 xerrades, tallers i petits cursos. Com a aportació destacable de l'edició, hi va haver cinc noves àrees temàtiques: nous materials, plàstics, manufactura avançada, motlles i matrius i impressió 3D. Es van incloure diferents indústries relacionades amb la impressió 3D i es va comptar amb la incorporació de la robòtica aplicada a la indústria. En la secció de motlles i matrius es va investigar de manera més profunda sobre la impressió 3D per arribar a entendre de quina manera pot arribar a beneficiar econòmicament el subsector. A l'àrea temàtica de nous materials destacaren les possibles oportunitats que materials plàstics i metàl·lics poden arribar a oferir.

La importància de la impressió 3D ha permès actualment que representants d'empreses ja utilitzin aquesta tècnica per a les seves produccions, fet que es va poder observar a l'event gràcies a l'espai In(3D)ustry Arena, una gràn àrea d'innovació. Es varen mostrar a partir d'aquest espai diferents exemples de fabricacions portades a terme mitjançant aquesta tecnologia.

Transformadors de plàstic com a protagonistes de la 3a Edició d'In(3D)ustry
La iniciativa que més va destacar durant aquesta edició va ser la del Saló dels Transformadors de Plàstic, on hi havia expositors i visitants; cadascú amb la seva funció.

 Expositor: transformador de plàstics o cautxú que treballa per a tercers i vol potenciar les seves habitalitats.
 Visitant: empreses que necessiten per als seus clients diferents peces per a sectors molt diversos. Han d'estar interessades en les tecnologies que ofereixen els expositors i estar oberts a nous proveedors.

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Study: Loneliness might be worse for you than smoking
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A new study released this month reveals that prolonged social isolation may be worse for your health than regularly smoking cigarettes.
The research paper, which was published in the peer-reviewed journal Aging, found that psychological factors can deeply impact the aging process. Subjects who reported suffering from a poor mental state, such as being depressed, unhappy, or lonely, were biologically 1.65 years older than their peers. Comparatively, being a current smoker was found to only add 1.25 years to a subject's biological age.
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The research paper, which was published in the peer-reviewed journal Aging, found that psychological factors can deeply impact the aging process. Subjects who reported suffering from a poor mental state, such as being depressed, unhappy, or lonely, were biologically 1.65 years older than their peers. Comparatively, being a current smoker was found to only add 1.25 years to a subject's biological age.
"The detrimental impact of low psychological well-being is of the same magnitude as serious diseases and smoking," the study's authors conclude.
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The results are timely considering the impact of the Covid-19 lockdowns on the social lives of Americans. According to a University of Michigan poll, 56 percent of Americans between the ages of 50 and 80 reported feelings of isolation in June 2020. Similarly, an AARP survey found that seven in ten older adults had increased feelings of depression and anxiety during the pandemic.
Prolonged social isolation can cause individuals to get less sleep and exercise, leading to an increased risk of stroke, heart disease, and mental health disorders. It is also associated with a higher risk for dementia due to poor brain function.
The results of the Aging study are consistent with a 2018 survey by Cigna that found loneliness rivals obesity and smoking as a health risk.
"Loneliness has the same impact on mortality as smoking 15 cigarettes a day, making it even more dangerous than obesity," Douglas Nemecek, MD, Cigna's chief medical officer for behavioral health, said at the time.
Former surgeon general Vivek H. Murthy, MD, echoed this sentiment, asserting that he was more likely to see loneliness in his patients than heart disease or diabetes.
"Loneliness is a growing health epidemic. We live in the most technologically connected age in the history of civilization, yet rates of loneliness have doubled since the 1980s."
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Grape variety: 4% Viognier, 96% Syrah
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Size (in ha): 8
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Intensity : Full-bodied
Dominant aroma : Spices
The vineyard of Saint-Joseph and its "vin de Mauves" was famous in the 19th century until the tsar empire. Two sites were already legendary: the hillside of Saint-Epine and the hillside of Saint-Joseph, the current location of a plot belonging to Maison Chapoutier."Les Granits" is a 100% Syrah cuvée, made from the oldest stock of this variety, on poor and stony granite soils. The grapes are harvested by hand at very high maturity and then ferment slowly in small concrete vats. The wine is then aged in barrels for 14 to 18 months, in new containers or those which have been used for one or two wines. The Maison will only use free run wine during the process. With its beautiful deep garnet colour, Les Granits is refined and elegant, marked by candied notes (ripe black fruit) and roasting. On the palate, smoky and peppery notes emerge with aromas of liquorice on the finish. This wine is characterised by very good balance, taut tannins and it lingers remarkably well.
Located in Ampuis, the cradle of the Côte-Rôtie, Domaine Guigal was founded in 1946 by Etienne Guigal. Guigal has contributed enormously to putting this appellation on the map, an appellation that was nearly lost to the phylloxera crisis at the close of the 19th century, the economic crisis of 1929 and the the two World Wars. In 1961, the young Marcel Guigal took over the reins. Driven by a desire to produce high quality wines, this young vigneron undeniably changed the perception of Côte-Rôtie wines. Nowadays, the brilliant enologist Philippe Guigal – son of Marcel – runs the domain. The house produces three cuvées "prestige" - La Landonne, La Mouline et La Turque – a sublime trilogy which wine connoisseurs go mad for. The vineyard now also runs over to the Rhone valley's prestigious appellations of Côte-Rôtie, Condrieu, Saint-Joseph, Hermitage, Gigondas, Crozes-Hermitage. They are all vinified and matured in the cellars of Ampuis. Marel Guigal and his son Philippe continue to devote considerable care to all of the winemaking process: low-intervention viticulture, work done entirely by hand, given the parcel's situation on a 45 degree slope, vinification in temperature-controlled, stainless steel vats, élevage in new oak barrels for 42 months, to allow the wine to fully develop its aromas etc. The headquarters of the domain is the Château d'Ampuis, a jewel of the Renaissance which is listed as a Historic Monument. The Guigal signature is one of the most emblematic of the Rhone valley, it shines for its infallible constancy and rigorous grape production.
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Le 1990 se révèle extraordinaire, avec son nez doux et ample aux notes de lard gras, de fumé et de cassis. Riche, très corsé et opulent en bouche, il n'a pas le caractère tannique des 1988.(12/97) Robert Parker
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